The division having been elevated to Grand National status in 2017, Super Stock Diesel 4x4 competitors vying for that title could no longer earn points at the regional level, though they still supported the class with fine numbers. That led to an odd scenario: Despite Hastings’ “Against the Grain” and Susan Ingram’s “Scheid Diesel” finishing one-two, they never met head-to-head. Ingram competed only at Greentown and earned 30 points with a fourth-place finish (to past champs Van Haisley and Shane Kellogg and Jon Bair), while Hastings won at Washington Court House and took third in Urbana (Kellogg, Haisley) and sixth in Findlay.

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